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In O'Reilly Factor, Megyn Kelly Gets It WRONG Re Civilian Trials for Enemy Combatants
March 17, 2010

Posted on 03/17/2010 9:04:14 PM PDT by Steelfish

Megyn Kelly believes Holder is entitled to have civilian trials for GITMO detainees. This is flat WRONG.

While those detained as enemy combatants are entitled to the writ of habeas corpus to contest their designation as "enemy combatants" in civilian courts per 5/4 SC vote in Boumediene v. Bush, they are to be tried under the Military Commissions Act of 2006, so long as the procedures are analogous to the rules applicable to courts-martial under the Uniform Code of Military Justice per 5/3 vote in Hamdan v. Rumsfeld (with CJ Roberts not participating).


TOPICS: Chit/Chat
KEYWORDS: civiliantrials; detainees; foxnews; holder; islam; megynkelly; showtrials; unholyalliance

1 posted on 03/17/2010 9:04:14 PM PDT by Steelfish
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To: Steelfish

Yeah, me too, what she said made little sense.


2 posted on 03/17/2010 9:06:42 PM PDT by Tarpon ( ...Rude crude socialist Obama depends on ignorance to force his will on people)
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To: Steelfish

BO is an idiot.
He is too stupid to know if his guests are right or wrong.


3 posted on 03/17/2010 9:11:54 PM PDT by Kansas58
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To: Steelfish

She’s sp[eaking as a lawyer. As such, she exposes the danger of listening to lawyers about doing the right thing. Lifers (inside the beltway), lawyers and liberals; they all have a different view of life, and what the difference is between right and wrong.


4 posted on 03/17/2010 9:16:51 PM PDT by Bernard (One if by Land, Two if by Sea, Three if by Government)
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To: Steelfish

Kelly said that any terrorist who is captured overseas and ends up on “American controlled soil” (eg., Gitmo) is afforded all the same Constitutional rights as any American citizen. So, if we are invaded by, say, Russia, and we capture thousands of Russian soldiers and put them into POW camps, we have to read each prisoner his Miranda rights (in Russian, of course) and then arraign him, give him a lawyer, set bail, etc.

I never knew it before, but the beautiful Kelly is an idiot.


5 posted on 03/17/2010 9:23:32 PM PDT by Lancey Howard
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To: Bernard

I’m not sure she understands the real reason behind this administration’s desire for show trials. She should look at their shameful behavior toward Israel and get a clue. (And I like Megyn Kelly a lot).


6 posted on 03/17/2010 9:24:10 PM PDT by sageb1 (This is the Final Crusade, There are only two sides. Pick one.)
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To: Steelfish

If what is stated is correct this is one of the very few times I disagree with Megyn. Normally I agree with her stances.


7 posted on 03/17/2010 9:24:34 PM PDT by Parley Baer
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To: Kansas58
"BO is an idiot."

Enough said. But if you buy his book you will get a nifty canvas tote bag.

8 posted on 03/17/2010 9:24:40 PM PDT by blackbart.223 (I live in Northern Nevada. Reid doesn't represent me.)
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To: Steelfish

Megyn Kelly may be wrong. But she is also...NOT GUILTY!


9 posted on 03/17/2010 9:26:49 PM PDT by BigCinBigD (")
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To: Lancey Howard

True, the liberals on SCOTUS swung the pendulum in favor of the enemy combatants and away from prior precedent, but the reason for passing the MCA was to precisely deny them civilian trials and this is not unconstitutional.


10 posted on 03/17/2010 9:26:50 PM PDT by Steelfish (ui)
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To: BigCinBigD

I can agree with “that” verdict but guilty on constitutional law.


11 posted on 03/17/2010 9:28:15 PM PDT by Steelfish (ui)
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To: Steelfish

Quoting Danny Devito as Larry the Liquidator from the Movie “OTHER PEOPLE’s MONEY” ............

Congratulations.

You’re destroying the capitalist system.

While everybody else
in the world is embracing it...

...my boys and girls are fucking it up!

You know what happens
when capitalism gets fucked up?

The communists come back.

They come out of the bushes.
Don’t kid yourself.

They’re waiting in there.

But maybe that’s not so bad.

Because you know what happens
when the commies take over?

The first thing they do
is shoot all the lawyers!

Great movie bye the way...... Larry the Liquidator and Rush Limbaugh are my hero’s....LOL


12 posted on 03/17/2010 9:29:03 PM PDT by jakerobins
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To: Steelfish
Your preaching to the choir here. Go enlighten Megyn and O’Reilly.
13 posted on 03/17/2010 9:51:19 PM PDT by fish hawk
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To: Lancey Howard

During WW2, there were German prisoners in POW camps in the U.S.
They were p.o.w.`s, period. No trials, no nothing, just pow`s.
http://www.kilroywashere.org/004-Pages/JAN-Area/04-D-Jackson-POW.html

We are at war .
1. War on terror
2. War is hell.
3. Captured enemy combatants are pow`s.
4. P.OW.`s are put in pow camps til the war is over.
Those are Geneva Convention rules. period.
What is all this crap going on in Obummer`s camp?


14 posted on 03/17/2010 10:51:54 PM PDT by bunkerhill7
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To: Steelfish

Agreed, I was cursing Megan....


15 posted on 03/17/2010 11:58:11 PM PDT by cranked
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To: Steelfish

Oreilly says only He and Morris are Complaining about the Slaughter rule no on else is Ranting about it . This Guy is so Full of himself,what an ass


16 posted on 03/18/2010 3:58:09 AM PDT by ballplayer
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